Salpiglossis sinuataRuiz & Pav.

painted tongue

WFO wfo-0001025263 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Salpiglossis sinuata, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. a Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-11-21 / obs. 128258508
Salpiglossis sinuata, photographed by Nicolás Villaseca Merino
fig. b Nicolás Villaseca Merino, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 142161289
Salpiglossis sinuata, photographed by Nicolás Villaseca Merino
fig. c Nicolás Villaseca Merino, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141154820
Salpiglossis sinuata, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. d Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128102065
Salpiglossis sinuata, photographed by aacocucci
fig. e aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57569912
Salpiglossis sinuata, photographed by Nicolás Villaseca Merino
fig. f Nicolás Villaseca Merino, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 142160233
Salpiglossis sinuata, photographed by Darío De la Fuente
fig. g Darío De la Fuente, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129012032
Salpiglossis sinuata, photographed by Bruno Avilez
fig. h Bruno Avilez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182439916

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Salpiglossis sinuata is native: Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South Argentina NorthwestArgentina SouthChile CentralChile South
Native distribution of Salpiglossis sinuata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina South AGS
Chile Central CLC
Chile South CLS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Salpiglossis atropurpurea Graham
  • Salpiglossis barclayana Sweet
  • Salpiglossis coccinea Lindl. & Paxton
  • Salpiglossis fulva Courtois
  • Salpiglossis picta Sweet
  • Salpiglossis purpurea Miers
  • Salpiglossis purpurea var. atropurpurea (Graham) Miers
  • Salpiglossis purpurea var. purpurea
  • Salpiglossis sinuata Hook. & Arn. ex Miers
  • Salpiglossis straminea Hook.
  • Salpiglossis straminea var. picta (Sweet) Hook.
  • Salpiglossis straminea var. straminea

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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